The drawing: leatherThe drawing: leather
Leather

Ingredients · Leather & smoke · Made in a lab

Leather

Tanned hide yields no extract; leather is a smoky, animalic accord of tars and resins.

What it is
A classic blend perfumers build from several materials.
How perfumers build it
Isobutyl quinolineBirch tar, not in Ingredients yetCastoreum, not in Ingredients yetLabdanum, not in Ingredients yetSafraleine
Known in
Cuir de Russie (Chanel, 1924)
Worth knowing
Russia leather was dressed with birch-tar oil, the smoky material behind 'Russian leather' perfumes.

Named by the house in 39 of the 352 perfumes read so far